Wufei impact "Dairy cattle food alarm, shipping delay caused tension, the loss of domestic excellent forage producing areas is a hidden worry in the future."

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Wuhan pneumonia caused fluctuations in food supply and demand, affecting not only human beings, but also dairy cattle. Fifty percent of the domestic demand for cheese agriculture and hay depends on imports. Recently, due to the unstable shipping schedule, the dairy farmer said that "in the past, one container at a time has to be allocated to two or three households," worried that there will be supply problems in the future.

Huang Yanliang, secretary general of the Herbage Association, said, "if everyone wants to increase hoarding, the supply will be tight." On the whole, there is no shortage, but the arrival time is long. " However, Huang also warns that productive pastures need to be planted extensively, but Taiwan Sugar's land has been developed one after another. Take Shashi Farm in Tainan as an example, it is a very good forage producing area, but it is expected that it will be developed into a green energy park within two years, and the excellent producing areas of domestic forage grass will not increase but decrease. This is the hidden worry of cheese farming.

Hay transported separately from containers. Huang Yanliang provided longer time for international freight transportation, and cheese farmers increased stocks at the same time, resulting in a shortage of supply.

There are four major producing areas of the domestic dairy industry, which are located in Liuying in Tainan, Wandan in Pingtung, Fuxing in Changhua, and Kaibei in Yunlin, accounting for about 70% of the country's dairy output. Recently, dairy farmers have reported that imported forage has been hit by the epidemic, resulting in a shortage of supplies.

Domestic demand for cheese agricultural hay is about 500000 tons, of which domestic accounts for about 22-250000 tons, accounting for a little more than half. The main species are tropical forage grass, Nile grass and green-cut pennisetum. Imports are about 200000 tons, accounting for 40-50%. The main types are alfalfa, sweet oats and Bermuda grass, and the main producing areas are the United States and Australia. As the harvest is affected by rainy summer in China, the proportion of domestic forage grass will fluctuate slightly, and the nutritional value of imported forage grass is high. Even if the price is more than twice that of domestic forage grass, it is still an important feed for dairy farmers to feed dairy cattle.

Li Junnan, the monitor of the third class of dairy farmers' production and marketing class in Fuxing Township Farmers' Association, said, "hearing that there is some instability in the shipping schedule, people expect to ask more goods to fill up the grass warehouse. In principle, each dairy farmer has about a month's basic stock. If everyone orders the goods, but the quantity of the grass merchants in each issue is still fixed, they have no choice but to supply it by way of distribution. " Li also believes that "the current situation does not need to worry too much, in fact, there is no need to hoard goods." Taiwan is hot and humid, so alfalfa cannot be put in. If you leave it for too long, it will become moldy. "

Chen Kuang-hsiung, the head of the dairy farmers' production and marketing class of the Wandan Township Farmers' Association, raised 300 to 400 dairy cows. "now it's hard to call the fodder," he says. "when the American ship doesn't go well, the dairy farmers begin to get nervous." Now the purchase of fodder is a little bit unable to continue, but he does not dare to hoard it either. after all, each order is at least one or two containers, and there is not so much space on the ranch, so it is OK to maintain normal inventory. He believes that just like the fertilizer riot, farmers expect to deploy in advance that "cattle should be eaten every day, so it would be better to increase and reduce hoarding." You can lack others, but you don't want to be short of yourself. "